Briefs: NHL season could start without labor deal

Updated 12:08 am, Thursday, June 28, 2012

Cowboys cornerback and first-round pick Morris Claiborne tours the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, a trip made by all of the 2012 NFC rookies Wednesday.

Cowboys cornerback and first-round pick Morris Claiborne tours the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, a trip made by all of the 2012 NFC rookies Wednesday.

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Former New Braunfels resident Ryan Harrison congratulates Novak Djokovic after losing to the Serb 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 at Wimbledon.

Former New Braunfels resident Ryan Harrison congratulates Novak Djokovic after losing to the Serb 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 at Wimbledon.

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Briefs: NHL season could start without labor deal

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Season could start without labor deal

The NHL season could start without a new labor agreement if both sides agree to continue talks beyond the Sept. 15 expiration of the current deal.

NHL players association executive director Don Fehr said Wednesday “the players haven't considered what they would do on Sept. 15 or any other date if no agreement is in place.” If there is no agreement, work could go on under the old pact if management and players agree to that, Fehr said. The season starts Oct. 11.

Fehr, the former head of the baseball players' union, said there were a number of times during his 33 years there when a season went on without an agreement. Before Fehr was with the union, the NHL canceled the 2004-05 season before a deal was reached that included a salary cap for the first time.

College football

Atlanta bowl wants to host playoff

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Chick-fil-A Bowl president Gary Stokan says the bowl will bid for Atlanta to host a semifinal or national championship game in the four-team playoff, starting in 2014.

The new College Football Hall of Fame is scheduled to open in Atlanta in 2014. Atlanta is home to the Chick-fil-A Bowl and an annual kickoff game, as well as the Southeastern Conference championship game.

Golf

Ryder Cup assistants named

U.S. captain Davis Love III selected longtime friends Fred Couples and Mike Hulbert as his assistants for the Ryder Cup. He said they will help him choose his two other assistant captains for the Sept. 28-30 matches at Medinah.

Baseball

Plea deal entered in Dykstra fraud case

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles entered a plea agreement with former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra in a case where he's accused of bankruptcy fraud and embezzlement.

Court records show the plea agreement was filed under seal Tuesday.

Prosecutors said that after filing for bankruptcy, Dykstra hid, sold or destroyed more than $400,000 worth of items without permission of a bankruptcy trustee.

Dykstra is serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement.

He also was sentenced this year to nine months in jail after pleading no contest to charges that he exposed himself to women he met on Craigslist.

In Jack McCallum's book, “Dream Team,” Drexler said that Johnson only earned a spot on the Olympic team and the MVP award in the 1992 All-Star Game out of pity resulting from his HIV diagnosis the previous year. Drexler is quoted: “Everybody kept waiting for Magic to die.”

Fox to televise Battle on Midway

The inaugural Battle on the Midway game between Syracuse and San Diego State on the deck of the Midway aircraft carrier museum in San Diego on Nov. 9 will be televised by Fox Sports.

The U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters and an athlete training center in Colorado Springs appear safe from a raging wildfire.

But about 40 USOC employees were evacuated from their Colorado Springs homes ahead of the fire that has forced more than 30,000 residents from their homes.

Patrick Sandusky of the USOC said that less than 4 percent of the U.S. Olympic team is staying at the training center. He said smoke was in the air at times, depending on the winds, but that no training facilities were affected.

Sandusky said at least three USOC staffers appear to have lost their homes, though a full count is not yet available.

The headquarters remained open Wednesday.

Don't mess it up: Roger Federer may have had a harder time bowing before Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Wimbledon than he had defeating Fabio Fognini. "They do brief you beforehand," Federer said of the stilted bows he and his foe gave. "I guess you don't do anything stupid. You behave."